Police Brutality / Individual record
Shaquille Barrow
Shaquille Barrow was killed in a Joliet, Illinois police shooting on March 2, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-116
- Incident date
- March 2, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Joilet, IL
- Agency
- Joliet Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Shaquille Barrow died after an encounter with law enforcement in the Joliet, Illinois area on March 2, 2015. The Washington Post's national database includes him among people fatally shot by on-duty officers, but a database record alone cannot resolve whether Barrow threatened officers, whether warnings were issued or what evidence independent investigators obtained. This pass did not locate a sufficiently detailed, separately verified narrative to attribute specific movements or statements to Barrow. His story therefore remains explicitly incomplete rather than being filled with generic claims of a justified or unjustified shooting. The next research priorities are contemporaneous Joliet-area news archives, police incident files, family interviews and any state's attorney review.
Investigation & findings
Case-specific disposition not independently established in this pass.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 196
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 244
Last reviewed: October 25, 2026
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset